Curtain-light.



1 ,1 62,268; Patented Nov. 30, 1915.

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To all wiiom it may concern.

Be it known that I, GEORGE WHITE, a citi- Zen of the United States, residing at Rock Island, in the county'of Rock Island and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Curtain-Lights, of which the following is -'a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain improvements in curtain lights and has relation more particularly to a device of'this general character especially designed and adapted for use in connection with the curtains of vehicles; and an object of the invention is to provide a device of this general character which may be readily applied to or removed from a curtain as the necessities of-practice may re.-

quire.

tion to provide a device of this general character including a flap or apron adapted to serve to prevent passage of water or the I like through the opening in thecurtain with which the light is adapted to coact.

The invention also contemplates for an object to provide a novel and improved light which may be readily standardized whereby vehicle owners may be enabled to readily replace a light as the necessities of practice may dictate.

he invention consists 1n the details of construction and in the combination and arrangementof the several parts of my'-improved curtain light whereby certain important advantages are attained and the device rendered simpler, less expensive and otherwise more convenient and advantageous for use, all as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

The novel features of theinvention will be carefully defined in the appended claim.

In order that my invention may be the better understood, I will now proceed to decribe the same with reference to the acconr panying drawings- Figure l is an'lelevationalview of a curtain light constructed in accordance with an embodiment of my invention and in applied position, the coacting curtain being shownin fra ment; Fig. 2 is an elevational viewof the urtain light detached; Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view taken substantially on v Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 7, 1914. Serial No. 820,855.

Furthermore, it is an object of the inventhe line 3'-3 of Fig. 1; and Fig. 4: is an enlarged sectional view taken substantially on the line H of Fig. 2.

As disclosed in the accompanying draw- Patented Nev. so, 1915. v

ings, C denotes a fragment of a rear curtain, as generally employed in connection with automob les or other vehicles, having vproduced therein the opening 1, herein disclosed of rectangular formation, with which n operative position by the rows of stitchmg 4 which together with the outer rows of stitching 5 serve to hold the reinforcing strips in applied position.

As'herein set forth, my improved lightL comprises two superimposed plies a and b,

. the marginal portions of the ply 6 being turned over and upon the ply a and maintained insuch position through the rows of stitching 6 which also serve to maintain the plies in operative relation. vided with the panels of celluloid or other flexible transparent material adapted to close the openings 8 produced through the .light The light is proand having their marginal portions positioned between the plies a and b and maintained against displacement, through the medium of the rows of stitching 9. I w

The light'L is of such dimensions as to overlie the opening 1 and the marginal portions thereof, the top and side portions of the light being provided with means 10 adapted to co-act with the means 11 pro; duced along the sides and top of the opening 1 in the curtain C, for detachably applying the light L in operative position upon the curtain C. By this arrangement, it will be perceived that if, from any cause, the light L'should become unfit for use, the same may be readily andconveniently removed from applied position and a second light substituted therefor.

Overlyin'g the lower marginal portion "(if the light L IS theflap oiapron 12 ofa length substantially equal to the length of the Opel?- lower marginalportion of the openingl 1n tain the lower portion ofthe light in applied I tion is susceptible of some change and'modlfao inexpensive nature and is adapted for use by reason of the convenience I claim:

The combination with a vehicle curtain provided with an opening, to overlie the opening of marginal portions of a marginal portions of the opening, coacting means carried by vsaid overlying portions ing 1 and w'hich is adapted to overlap the 7' thecurtain C to afford a water-shed whereby the possibility. of ingress of water or the like through the opening 1 is reduced to a-mmi- 'mum and also serves as a medium to ma nthe curtain, the

-position.* whereby the light may be detachablyen- From .the foregoing description, it is gaged with'the'curtain, and alongitudinally thought to be obvious that a curtain light constructed in accordance with my invention is of an extremely simple and comparatively particularly well disposed apron overlying the-.lowermargmal portion of the light. and adapted to be inserted through the opening of and overlap the lower marginal portion of said opening, said apron'being of a length substantially equal to the length of the and facility with which it may be assembled,

and it will also be obvious that my invenportion of thelight in position. I c

In testimony whereof hereunto ailix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE WHITE.

fication without material departure from the principles and spirit thereof and for this reason I do not'wish to be understood as limiting myself to the precise arrangement Witnesses a LOUIS RUECKERT,

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the several parts herein carrying out my invention in 101 11" cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, 'Wuhington; D. 0.. 4

the light overlying thethe curtain opening and aiding to maintain said lower a light adapted 

